1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463199303321

Autore

Olive Ronald J.

Titolo

Capturing Jonathan Pollard : how one of the most notorious spies in American history was brought to justice / / Ronald J. Olive

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

1-61251-454-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

364.1/31

Soggetti

Spies - Israel

Spies - United States

Espionage, Israeli - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Acronyms""; ""1. A Dream Come True""; ""2. Pollard Launches His Career""; ""3. The Double-Agent Ruse""; ""4. Pollard's Battle with the Navy ""; ""5. Red Flags""; ""6. The Israeli Connection ""; ""7. The Point of No Return ""; ""8. A Thief in the Night ""; ""9. The Fall Guy ""; ""10. The Ten-Year Plan ""; ""11. Tall Tales""; ""12. A Secret Tip ""; ""13. The Wheel Begins to Turn ""; ""14. The Beginning of the End ""; ""15. A Twist of Fate""; ""16. Pollard Balks ""; ""17. The Confession ""; ""18. A Fatal Blunder""; ""19. A Spy Left Out in the Cold ""

""20. Unrepentant""""21. No Time to Lose ""; ""22. Operation Foul Play ""; ""23. Israel Confronted""; ""24. Guilty ""; ""25. The Damage""; ""26. The Sentencing ""; ""27. The Aftermath ""; ""28. More Sinned Against Than Sinning? ""; ""Epilogue ""; ""Appendix ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes ""; ""Index ""; ""About the Author ""

Sommario/riassunto

Jonathan Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, systematically stole highly sensitive secrets from almost every major intelligence agency in the United States. In just eighteen months he sold more than one million pages of classified material to Israel. No other spy in U.S.



history has stolen so many secrets, so highly classified, in such a short period of time. Author Ronald Olive was in charge of counterintelligence in the Washington office of the Naval Investigative Service that investigated Pollard and garnered the co

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019556503321

Autore

Gatarek Dariusz

Titolo

The LIBOR market model in practice / / Dariusz Gatarek, Przemyslaw Bachert and Robert Maksymiuk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, c2006

ISBN

9786610740024

9781118673348

1118673344

9781280740022

1280740027

9780470060414

0470060417

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Wiley finance series

Altri autori (Persone)

BachertPrzemyslaw

MaksymiukRobert

Disciplina

332.1/13

Soggetti

Interest rates - Mathematical models

Interest rate futures - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The LIBOR Market Model in Practice; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Introduction; Part I THEORY; 1 Mathematics in a Pill; 1.1 Probability Space and Random Variables; 1.2 Normal Distributions; 1.3 Stochastic Processes; 1.4 Wiener Processes; 1.5 Geometric Wiener Processes; 1.6 Markov Processes; 1.7 Stochastic Integrals and Stochastic Differential Equations; 1.8 Ito's Formula; 1.9 Martingales; 1.10 Girsanov's Theorem; 1.11 Black's Formula (1976); 1.12 Pricing Derivatives and Changing of Numeraire; 1.13 Pricing of Interest Rate Derivatives and the Forward Measure



2 Heath-Jarrow-Morton and Brace-Gatarek-Musiela Models2.1 HJM and BGM Models Under the Spot Measure; 2.2 Vasicek Model; 2.3 Cox-Ingersoll-Ross Model; 2.4 Black-Karasinski Model; 2.5 HJM and BGM Models under the Forward Measures; 3 Simulation; 3.1 Simulation of HJM and BGM Models under the Forward Measure; 3.2 Monte Carlo Simulation of Multidimensional Gaussian Variables; Random numbers generation; Principal Components Analysis (PCA); Cholesky decomposition; 3.3 Trinomial Tree Simulation of Multidimensional Gaussian Variables; 4 Swaption Pricing and Calibration

4.1 Linear Pricing in the BGM Model4.2 Linear Pricing of Swaptions in the HJM Model; 4.3 Universal Volatility Function; 4.4 Time Homogeneous Volatility; 4.5 Separated Volatility; Example of Separated Calibration; 4.6 Parametrized Volatility; 4.7 Parametric Calibration to Caps and Swaptions Based on Rebonato Approach; 4.8 Semilinear Pricing of Swaptions in the BGM Model; 4.9 Semilinear Pricing of Swaptions in the HJM Model; 4.10 Nonlinear Pricing of Swaptions; 4.11 Examples; 5 Smile Modelling in the BGM Model; 5.1 The Shifted BGM Model; 5.2 Stochastic Volatility for Long Term Options

5.3 The Uncertain Volatility Displaced LIBOR Market Model5.4 Mixing the BGM and HJM Models; 6 Simplified BGM and HJM Models; 6.1 CMS Rate Dynamics in Single-Factor HJM Model; 6.2 CMS Rate Dynamics in a Single Factor BGM Model; 6.3 Calibration; 6.4 Smile; Part II CALIBRATION; 7 Calibration Algorithms to Caps and Floors; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Market Data; Interpretation of ATM Swaption Quotes; 7.3 Calibration to Caps; 7.3.1 Caplet Values; 7.3.2 ATM Strikes for Caps; 7.3.3 Stripping Caplet Volatilities from Cap Quotes; 7.4 Non-Parametric Calibration Algorithms

7.4.1 Piecewise Constant Instantaneous Volatilities Depending on the Time to Maturity7.4.2 Piecewise Constant Instantaneous Volatilities Depending on the Maturity of the Underlying Forward Rate; 7.5 Conclusions; 8 Non-Parametric Calibration Algorithms to Caps and Swaptions; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 The Separated Approach; 8.3 The Separated Approach with Optimization; 8.4 The Locally Single Factor Approach; 8.5 Calibration with Historical Correlations of Forward Rates; 8.6 Calibration to Co-Terminal Swaptions; 8.7 Conclusions

9 Calibration Algorithms to Caps and Swaptions Based on Optimization Techniques

Sommario/riassunto

The LIBOR Market Model (LMM) is the first model of interest rates dynamics consistent with the market practice of pricing interest rate derivatives and therefore it is widely used by financial institution for valuation of interest rate derivatives. This book provides a full practitioner's approach to the LIBOR Market Model. It adopts the specific language of a quantitative analyst to the largest possible level and is one of first books on the subject written entirely by quants. The book is divided into three parts - theory, calibration and simulation. New and important issues are covered, su